ZERA SUPPORT✪ @ZeraSupport_

Privacy won’t just be a moat for chains, it’ll be the moat for open societies. If everyday payments are traceable forever for anyone to see, we’ve already lost the plot. That’s why we build. "There is no freedom without private money."

a16z crypto @a16zcrypto

6 months ago

@SamBroner @cc_crowley @lordvolth @meigga @psneville @skominers @liz_harkavy Privacy will be the most important moat in crypto @alive_

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ZERA is building a privacy-preserving financial layer that turns the assets you already hold (USDC, USDT, SOL, BTC, ETH, etc.) into private, portable digital cash. A single compressed ZK pool enables shielded balances, private transfers, and offline P2P via NFC, Bluetooth, and QR. Powered by Pedersen commitments, deterministic nullifiers, and Groth16 zk-SNARKs for scalability on @Solana and beyond - with an early version already on devnet. In the long term, ZERA targets internet-scale private payments and transfers with cross-chain portability, enterprise-ready rails, and extensible tools for developers to build privacy-preserving DeFi across the app stack. The ecosystem token $ZERA: (8avjtjHAHFqp4g2RR9ALAGBpSTqKPZR8nRbzSTwZERA), aligns value with adoption through programmatic buybacks & burns tied to protocol activity and volume. The project was formerly known as #M0N3Y, and turned into $ZERA and @ZeraLabs after a strategic rebrand including a 1:1 token migration, aligning identity with product scope. Compliant by design, ZERA is advancing the "Texas Privacy-First Digital Finance Act", defending your right to use privacy tools, protecting developers right to build them, treating code as speech, and enabling mainstream integration. Founded and led by @dev_skill_issue, a former MetaMask developer and nuclear engineer with past roles at USAA and Twitter (X). Originally begun as a PhD-by-publication, now a company driving cutting-edge ZK privacy and offline cash R&D. Background, vision & mission: x.com/ZeraLabs/statu… Protocol, tech & product pipeline: x.com/ZeraLabs/statu… Policy & advocacy: x.com/ZeraLabs/statu… A new New Zero Knowledge Era is here. Welcome to the evolution of crypto privacy, welcome to ZERA.

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8 months ago

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Full livestream tomorrow. Find out exactly what we are dropping and what all these things do @ZeraLabs

zm from @ZeraLabs EU office new dev hire locked in on a Sunday night zera mode

Working late tonight. Whos ready for physical offline tokens? @ZeraLabs

Dev team is expanding. We’ve excited to let you know we recently onboarded a senior Front-End Engineer, previously at VMware and later LimeChain, where she shipped dApps for multiple top-100 blockchain projects. She’s already taken a big chunk of the front-end and coordination work off @dev_skill_issue’s plate so he can stay heads-down on protocol + infra. On the product side, we’re building on the recent demo release with two parallel tracks: ✅ Extending asset support inside the private pool (more stables, SOL + more). ✅ Shipping the first “physical digital cash” MVP: desktop wallet + hardware token reader. Which one drops first will depend on how the hardening work lands. Additional focus for December: ✅ Hardening the contracts + ZK stack. ✅ Plan and locking in the mobile architecture. ✅ Getting the office + stream setup ready.

Texas is big on financial privacy and serious about crypto policy, we have the @TXblockchain_ and the crypto-friendly @TXStockExchange, all reasons for our “Texas Privacy-First Digital Finance Act” push here. So yes, @SolanaConf BREAKPOINT 6 in Texas would be very on-theme.

toly 🇺🇸 @toly

6 months ago

@metasal @SolanaConf Texas

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More about the “Texas Privacy-First Digital Finance Act” and our policy work here⤵️ x.com/ZeraLabs/statu…

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8 months ago

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Sneak preview. We r pushing buttons as fast as we can and r building out the office.

Zera Labs HQ loading: Dallas based office and hardware lab with an open door for the community! Stay tuned, more soon.

Dax @dev_skill_issue

6 months ago

What lease the starts tomorrow?! So soon. Its Moving day! We will be able to set up test and even sell hardware from the office. Also we have an open office policy where once a week any members of the community can stop by the office for a visit. @ZeraLabs #BuildinginPublic

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Thank you @colosseum for correcting our hackathon submission name to Zera Labs after our unfortunate accident. 🤝 arena.colosseum.org/projects/explo… Kind regards Better Web Wallet

The core of ZERA’s True Digital Cash is now live on Solana mainnet. This first dashboard beta ships the offline cash engine and unified pool core: you can deposit USDC into the Offline Cash program, mint a cryptographic offline voucher, auto-download a JSON backup file, and later redeem that voucher back into USDC with on-chain nullifier checks and full settlement on-chain. Every deposit also wires into live $ZERA burn economics, so usage is already feeding real protocol value. This is the base layer the rest of the ecosystem (mobile wallet, SDKs, merchants, more assets) builds on. To set expectations clearly: this is an infrastructure-first release. ✅ Phase 1 (now): Live mainnet unified pool, USDC deposit/withdraw flows, ZERA burns, offline vouchers + nullifier set, and JSON backups. ✅ Runs on desktop/laptop browser only for now. ✅ Offline handoffs are a demo path only right now. Each voucher is bound to a specific wallet (either your connected wallet or a recipient you choose on deposit). You can back up, manage and move those vouchers offline, but this is not yet a production ready offline P2P flow. Additional protocol logic and ZKPs are needed before we enable safe “pass-the-note” usage, and fees/parameters are set high on purpose to discourage heavy volume while we test. Next up: ☑️ Double-spend-safe offline P2P on desktop/laptop, followed by mobile web support and QR/NFC-style handoffs. ☑️ Note-splitting and deeper privacy upgrades once the core rails are battle-tested. ☑️ Native iOS/Android wallets that sit directly on top of this engine, turning the unified pool into everyday private cash rails for people and merchants, with SDKs and integrations for apps that want cash-like privacy but on-chain settlement. This beta is the floor, from here, expect regular, incremental releases that push more of our “True Digital Cash” into production without compromising on safety, compliance, or privacy. Want to see it in action? Check out the dashboard release stream ⤵️

When you’re ready to go back on-chain: 1️⃣ Load voucher file: Selecting a voucher JSON auto-fills all fields (voucherID, secret, salt, recipient), which is the safest way to withdraw. 2️⃣ Confirm withdraw: The app builds the transaction, and the on-chain nullifier set ensures the voucher can only be redeemed once. This closes the loop: USDC → offline voucher → USDC again, all through the same unified pool. Next iterations plug in double-spend-safe offline P2P and mobile tap/scan UX on top of this core. Where this is going ⤵️

From Private Digital Money to Enterprise Cypherpunk. This beta is the first slice of our much bigger plan. Near term, this engine becomes cash-like private P2P enabling digital assets with cash semantics (offline, discrete, final) while still settling on Solana and burning $ZERA under the hood. From there, the same unified pool powers merchant and enterprise rails: ✅ Private balances and flows for businesses ✅ Proofs, not raw transaction maps, for auditors and regulators ✅ SDKs and APIs so apps can plug in privacy without inventing ZK from scratch The goal is simple: private execution with public verification, so individuals keep cash-level privacy, and institutions get the assurances they need. This dashboard beta is the ground floor of that stack. Welcome to the New Zero-knowledge Era.

Live now! 🚨Zera Labs founder & lead engineer @dev_skill_issue “Demoing the Demo” of the ZERA Dashboard ⤵️ x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

At the end of the stream we’ll spin up a Telegram voice chat for a live Q&A while Dax is still streaming. Jump in and talk with us directly: t.me/ZeraTG

Hearing things.

Dax @dev_skill_issue

6 months ago

Pushing buttons...

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Quick tour of the ZERA stack and near-term product pipeline — from core rails to the fun edges. ✅ Protocol & Unified Pool (live mainnet internal testing) Direct-deposit ZK cash with USDC/USDT/SOL + more, on Solana to start, but designed as a chain-agnostic protocol that can extend to other networks and execution stacks over time. Same math, different settlement layers. ✅ ZERA Dashboard (mainnet beta internal testing) The first interface into that pool: mint/redeem notes, wire usage into $ZERA burn economics, and then take those notes fully offline by exporting them as files and moving them via USB, DMs, secure storage. ✅ Wallets (in progress) iOS/Android + browser-integrated flows for private transactions, shielded balances, and daily spend, with full offline note management and splitting. ✅ Hardware Wallet (in progress) A dedicated ZERA hardware wallet for high-assurance signing and offline cash handling, roughly challenge-coin sized, running full Linux on dual-core RISC-V with local on-device ZK. Because the offline notes are “just” cryptographic vouchers, they’re highly mobile and modal and don’t have to stay inside one app or one device. They can move like files, or dollar bills, outside traditional “send crypto” flows. That’s where the fun experiments come in. You may have seen the 3D-printed ZERA token mentioned: a physical ZERA token with an NFC chip inside, a single-use, collectible shell that can hold one offline note. Not the main UX but rather a playful proof-of-concept of what becomes possible when ZK cash can live fully offline on tags, cards, and devices. Same underlying note, multiple form factors: dashboards, wallets, hardware, cards… and, if you really want, a literal coin in your hand. The beta dashboard and near-term product pipeline is the first step, not the destination. ZERA’s longer arc is toward “Enterprise Cypherpunk” rails: a world where execution is private, verification is public, and users get cash-like privacy while businesses and regulators rely on proofs and deterministic audit hooks instead of peeking into everyone’s flows.

Sanity check: Passed ✅ "Either private money wins or…" This IS the why and what we’re building for: Digital Private Cash.

mert @mert

7 months ago

it's possible I've went completely insane, but I don't see a way around this either private money wins or we are literally all fucked there is no choice here and there is no time either nanny state antics are accelerating and money is becoming easier to control as it becomes

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